CVE-2025-68217 (GCVE-0-2025-68217)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 13:57 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Input: pegasus-notetaker - fix potential out-of-bounds access
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Input: pegasus-notetaker - fix potential out-of-bounds access
In the pegasus_notetaker driver, the pegasus_probe() function allocates
the URB transfer buffer using the wMaxPacketSize value from
the endpoint descriptor. An attacker can use a malicious USB descriptor
to force the allocation of a very small buffer.
Subsequently, if the device sends an interrupt packet with a specific
pattern (e.g., where the first byte is 0x80 or 0x42),
the pegasus_parse_packet() function parses the packet without checking
the allocated buffer size. This leads to an out-of-bounds memory access.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
1afca2b66aac7ac262d3511c68725e9e7053b40f , < c4e746651bd74c38f581e1cf31651119a94de8cd
(git)
Affected: 1afca2b66aac7ac262d3511c68725e9e7053b40f , < 36bc92b838ff72f62f2c17751a9013b29ead2513 (git) Affected: 1afca2b66aac7ac262d3511c68725e9e7053b40f , < 015b719962696b793997e8deefac019f816aca77 (git) Affected: 1afca2b66aac7ac262d3511c68725e9e7053b40f , < 084264e10e2ae8938a54355123ad977eb9df56d6 (git) Affected: 1afca2b66aac7ac262d3511c68725e9e7053b40f , < d344ea1baf1946c90f0cd6f9daeb5f3e0a0ca479 (git) Affected: 1afca2b66aac7ac262d3511c68725e9e7053b40f , < 9ab67eff6d654e34ba6da07c64761aa87c2a3c26 (git) Affected: 1afca2b66aac7ac262d3511c68725e9e7053b40f , < 763c3f4d2394a697d14af1335d3bb42f05c9409f (git) Affected: 1afca2b66aac7ac262d3511c68725e9e7053b40f , < 69aeb507312306f73495598a055293fa749d454e (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.8 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.302 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.247 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.197 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.159 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.118 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.60 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.10 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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